{"id":216379,"date":"2025-06-21T06:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/climbing-the-social-ladder-a-clear-understanding-of-connections-matters-more-than-popularity-study-suggests"},"modified":"2025-06-21T06:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:23:13","slug":"climbing-the-social-ladder-a-clear-understanding-of-connections-matters-more-than-popularity-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/climbing-the-social-ladder-a-clear-understanding-of-connections-matters-more-than-popularity-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Climbing the social ladder: A clear understanding of connections matters more than popularity, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/climbing-the-social-ladder-a-clear-understanding-of-connections-matters-more-than-popularity-study-suggests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climbing the social ladder isn\u2019t simply a matter of popularity. Rather, people in positions of influence are particularly adept at forming \u201cmaps\u201d of their social connections, which they navigate to become prominent in their social network, new research shows.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like having a \u201csocial superpower,\u201d according to study author Oriel FeldmanHall, an associate professor of cognitive and psychological sciences at Brown University who is affiliated with the University\u2019s Carney Institute for Brain Science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople vary considerably in how accurately they understand the structure of their communities,\u201d FeldmanHall said. \u201cOur research establishes for the first time that people who excel at mapping out their social network\u2014determining who belongs to which communities and cliques\u2014are the ones who will go on to become the most influential in the social network.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climbing the social ladder isn\u2019t simply a matter of popularity. Rather, people in positions of influence are particularly adept at forming \u201cmaps\u201d of their social connections, which they navigate to become prominent in their social network, new research shows. It\u2019s like having a \u201csocial superpower,\u201d according to study author Oriel FeldmanHall, an associate professor of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}